Had a heck of a time getting the wireless chipset (Realtek 8176) to work, but finally got the WLAN to show up. Now, it seems as though it will recognize my WLAN and SSID, ask for my WPA password, but never connect. I connect fine over wired ethernet. It will not connect wirelessly to an unsecured network either.
I previously had Jolicloud installed on my netbook, and my wireless worked out of the box with no setup, but I really didn't like the lack of application support with Jolicloud. I ended up in dependency hell just trying to update Banshee for use with my iPod.
I am a new Linux user, and am extremely grateful for the information and support provided in the community and these forums.
Thank you all for the information already provided, and in advance for any you can provide to help me out with my wireless
-Anthony
1 ) Machine Brand and Model (PC/Laptop):
Toshiba NB505-500BL
2 ) Wireless Brand, Model and Wireless Chipset:
07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8176] (rev 01)
3 ) check interface:
anthony@NB505:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 1c:75:08:72:1c:ce
inet addr:192.168.1.70 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::1e75:8ff:fe72:1cce/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5042 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4269 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5278050 (5.2 MB) TX bytes:713510 (713.5 KB)
Interrupt:43 Base address:0xe000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:240 (240.0 B) TX bytes:240 (240.0 B)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 1c:65:9d:97:4c:d1
inet6 addr: fe80::1e65:9dff:fe97:4cd1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:31 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:898 (898.0 B) TX bytes:6696 (6.6 KB)
Interrupt:17 Memory:f81c0000-f81c0100
anthony@NB505:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 802.11bg Nickname:"rtl8192CE"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
Retryn RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=10/100 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=-100 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
4 ) Check for modules:
anthony@NB505:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
michael_mic 1744 0
arc4 1165 0
aes_i586 7280 0
aes_generic 26875 1 aes_i586
binfmt_misc 6599 1
parport_pc 26058 0
ppdev 5556 0
joydev 8767 0
i915 295243 5
snd_hda_codec_realtek 218492 1
drm_kms_helper 30200 1 i915
snd_hda_intel 22203 2
drm 168092 5 i915,drm_kms_helper
snd_hda_codec 87552 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 5040 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 71475 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi 4588 0
snd_rawmidi 17783 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6047 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 47174 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 19067 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 5744 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
r8192ce_pci 457634 0
uvcvideo 55847 0
intel_agp 26566 2 i915
snd 49038 13 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec, snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,sn d_seq_device
psmouse 59033 0
videodev 43098 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 13359 2 uvcvideo,videodev
serio_raw 4022 0
i2c_algo_bit 5168 1 i915
soundcore 880 1 snd
agpgart 32011 2 drm,intel_agp
video 18712 1 i915
snd_page_alloc 7120 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
output 1883 1 video
lp 7342 0
parport 31492 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
usb_storage 40172 0
ahci 19198 2
r8169 36521 0
libahci 21728 1 ahci
mii 4425 1 r8169
5 ) Kernel boot messages
anthony@NB505:~$ dmesg | grep wlan
[ 14.276342] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 51.539636] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 61.793038] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
6 ) Network configuration
anthony@NB505:~$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for anthony:
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 1c:65:9d:97:4c:d1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8192CE driverversion=0005.1116.2010 firmware=56 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=802.11bg
resources: irq:17 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0100000-f0103fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 05
serial: 1c:75:08:72:1c:ce
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.1.70 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:43 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f050c000-f050cfff memory:f0508000-f050bfff
7 ) Scan for networks:
anthony@NB505:~$ iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 No scan results
8 ) Ubuntu Version:
anthony@NB505:~$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
9 ) Kernel/architecture (including 32 vs. 64 bit):
anthony@NB505:~$ uname -mr
2.6.35-25-generic i686
10 ) Restarting the network
anthony@NB505:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.
[ OK ]
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